M.M. Speranskii (1772-1839), the son of a village priest, became the chair of mathematics and physics at the Nevskii Academy in 1793. Later he was the principal adviser to Alexander I. He is also known as a great statesman and reformer, for his exile to Siberia, his governorship, and his subsequent return during the reign of Nicholas I to undertake the tremendous task of the codification of Russian law. This book is a collection of articles about Speranskii by a well known historian, lawyer and social activist A.N. Fateev (1872-1952). Fateev emigrated from Russia in 1922, where he continued to teach and also became the chairman of the Russian Historical Society. Most of articles in this volume are published for the first time. (0.465 kg.)